I have to agree with Doug on this.

As you know I work in IT for a large company, so change is an inherently evil thing to be avoided. But with my new home machine, I had the choice. I went with XP because it was already mostly loaded (just needed that final boot configuration stuff). Between some of the desktop settings, TweakUI and my own backgrounds, I was pretty much able to stomp out that "Teletubbies OS" look and feel and get to a stable state. And it recognizes my USB2.0 properly along with my other devices, so I can finally transfer in high speed to things like the Carbon and Karma while not having to load (rather poor) software drivers for my multifunction printer.

I have not yet found anything that does not work on it, and I have customized the configuration and admin stuff to what I like without too much issue. Lastly, running 2003 Server at the office and migrating from 2000 -> 2003, I had to go sometime...

To quote Robin Williams - "It's not a pod. It won't hurt you."